HP covers USB port with sticker, insists you to use their cloud service

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[–]BobOki 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

HP's printers have been the industry worst for about a decade now... if not more. For home use I do Brother... but most businesses have left the trash that is HP behind and gone to Kiocerra or Konica Minolta, printers that actually do work...

[–]notafed 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I'm using a Brother MFP printer/scanner. I use inexpensive 3rd party carts in it as well. Works pretty good.

[–]BobOki 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Same, all-in-one with normal carts that take no chip or any crap like that. And it works quite well.

[–]notafed 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The brother does have chips on the toner carts, but it has a reset facility as well.

[–]BobOki 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I have the HL-L2395DW which is an all-in-one that toner is not chipped.

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed on the Brother printers. I've had my all-in-one since around 2011 and it's still working great. Had to clean it once because someone spilled beer in it, but that's it. I will need to replace the toner cartridges soon, for the first time.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (0 children)

Kind of ironic homeboy is bitching about this, but he clearly uses a Mac.

[–]Brewdabier 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Why in the world would people buy anything HP.

[–]LordBeetusRises 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Some of us learned the hard way. I hope their execs all get aggressive asshole cancer.

[–]IkeConn 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

DO NOT UPDATE THE PRINTER FIRMWARE. If you do it will only take HP ink cartridges and not the generics.

[–]notafed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Better yet, don't purchase HP.

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    [–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Some might let you encrypt it (most will not though). It's good if you can do that in case all those drives are destroyed somehow.

    [–]notafed 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    If they wanted to ditch the USB port, all they'd have to do is not include it or the USB chip in the BOM. They'd save about 7.5¢/unit.

    [–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    the port wouldn't connect, it would be perfect

    but they probably deal with them over uSB on the production line or smth

    [–]zyxzevn 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Cloud storage is far worse. It is not compatible to a future system that does not use the same app.
    And after some time it will be used for extortion to make you pay for a cloud service that you do not even need.

    From a privacy perspective the cloud-servers can just keep track of everything that you ever tried to print.
    Like: all your income-overviews, contracts, labels, some passwords, personal IDs/ social-security-ID, bank-cards,
    posters for protests or meetings, engineering details, pictures, information about parties, etc.

    These companies will give away your data to google and such for "AI training".
    And it will be stored at some NSA server to keep track of everything.
    So they will arrest you when you are printing something about government corruption.

    [–]Musky 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    And after some time it will be used for extortion to make you pay for a cloud service that you do not even need.

    It already is, if you want to use Google Backup you only get so many gig until your email stops working.

    [–]Gravi 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Man I think it's time we go back to writing things by hand or something.

    Dunno about pictures, but printers are the most successful scam ever made.

    [–]orangered[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    source

    [–]Myocarditis-Man 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    And posting this publicly means that HP will finally get off their ass and do a hardware revision without the USB port, or where it is covered by the plastic shell.

    [–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    nah, they'll just not have it there on the next model. it's gotta cost a grip to change a mold.

    [–]WoodyWoodPecker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    HP Smart in Windows 10 to install a printer. Have to log into HP Smart to scan a document.

    [–]Ferretman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Had something similar with an HP desktop I bought for my mother. I could not find the video port on it, and it seemed like it wanted an HDMI connection to her monitor. I kept looking though, and finally realized that there was a spot that looked like a port covered with a metal plate. I took the plate off, there was the "classic" monitor port, worked like a champ.

    I recall being more amused than anything else.....pretty silly though.

    [–]KyleIsThisTall 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    are meaning to say VGA? DVI? S-Video? RCA composite? Coaxial?

    [–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Uhh...yiffit.net?

    [–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

    Who prints hard copies for anything important?

    [–]SMCAB 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    I do. I have entire binders of information on planting things, building things, fixing things, and all that.

    [–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

    Why? Seems like a waste of time when you could just go digital. Hell, I doubt you could fill up a 1TB hard drive with things you print (meaning excluding video and audio files). And if your argument is "I'm prepping for Armageddon" and don't need the internet to run a computer and read files.

    [–]SMCAB 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    It isn't deep or anything. I just like print. I've never sold a book and still read them.

    Bottom line, short of me losing them or throwing them in a pond, they can't be corrupted.

    [–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Ahh. Yeah, my oldest prefers physical books. I'm fine with my Kindle, lol.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    That is shameful.